More ‘Easy’ Money? Average Pot Sizes Bulging; More Online Poker Trends from PokerListings.com
Tracking and analyzing over 20 million hands every month, PokerListings.com’s MarketPulse section is the most comprehensive, real-time statistical snapshot of online poker on the Web. And looking at the numbers for the first few months of 2008, no less than seven of the biggest online poker rooms are showing pot sizes on the rise - meaning things are looking very profitable for skilled poker …
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Poker lingo:
- OFFSUIT - Not of the same suit. "I held A-Q offsuit" or "The flop was 10-6-2 offsuit". When speaking of 5 or more cards, not all/ of the same suit, i.e., no flush, as in "button had A-K-10-8-7 offsuit."
- SEMI-BLUFF - To bluff with a come hand that figures to win if it hits.
- ALL-IN - To have all of one's chips in the pot. A player who is all-in cannot be forced out of the pot by more betting, but is only eligible to win that portion of the pot he has contributed to. Generally, a SIDE POT is created each time a player is all-in.
- SPREAD LIMIT - A variation on fixed limit wherein the minimum and maximum bets are different. A 1-4-8 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds and 1-8 in the last round. A 1-4-8-16 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds, 1 to 8 in the next-to-last round, and 1 to 16 in the last round.
- SHORT-STACKED - Playing with a only a small amount of money, thus limiting one's risk and reward.
- BARN - A FULL HOUSE, three of a kind and a pair.
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